Learning Targets. Students will

• Demonstrate how to assist with eating and serve meal trays
• Identify basic nutrients & importance of good nutrition
• Describe nutrition problems of the elderly
• Describe special diets & the role of the dietary department
• Explain the purpose of maintaining fluid balance
• Identify what is counted as intake & demonstrate how to accurately record I & O
• Define key terms: anorexia, aspiration, calorie, daily value (DV), dehydration. dysphagia, edema, graduate, intake, nutrient, nutrition, output, regurgitation, NG tube, PEG tube, G tube